Romance

Pelea de gallos

by María Fernanda Ampuero

Ecuadorian writer María Fernanda Ampuero delivers brutal, unflinching stories of violence—particularly against women—in contemporary Latin America. Like the cockfights of the title, these narratives are savage, bloody, and impossible to look away from. Ampuero's razor-sharp prose exposes the cruelty embedded in family, religion, and society with devastating clarity.

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